Gold Price Hike Sparks Surge in Electronic Metal Detecting

Gold Price Hike Sparks Surge in Electronic Metal Detecting
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Allan Stein/The Epoch Times
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TUCSON, Ariz.—Joe Marihugh caught the gold bug years ago while running buckets of sand through a washer to extract flakes of the precious yellow metal.

He and his wife once ran 50 buckets to retrieve two grams of gold, which was worth nearly $200 at the time.

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